{"id":16771,"date":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2013\/02\/15\/is-singapores-birth-rate-too-low-prof-lutz-captures-singapores-zeitgeist\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:11:04","slug":"is-singapores-birth-rate-too-low-prof-lutz-captures-singapores-zeitgeist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2013\/02\/15\/is-singapores-birth-rate-too-low-prof-lutz-captures-singapores-zeitgeist\/","title":{"rendered":"“Is Singapore’s Birth Rate Too Low?” – Prof Lutz captures Singapore’s zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday 13th February all\u00a0of\u00a0the local\u00a0media’s eyes were on Prof\u00a0Wolfgang Lutz,\u00a0demographer and Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. Prof Lutz’s was giving a seminar in FASS, hosted by the Department of Sociology, where he discussed Singapore\u2019s fertility rate, a topic which\u00a0has been widely debated in the wake of the Singapore Government’s White Paper on Population.<\/div>\n

Prof Lutz had read the recent published white paper and so was able to provide his opinions on Singapore’s projected\u00a0Total Fertility Rate in relation to issues of population heterogeneity, economic productivity, national strength, global climate change, migration, and increasing life expectancy. Prof\u00a0 Lutz concluded that a fertility\u00a0level somewhat below replacement level might be optimal for a highly-educated modern society such as Singapore.<\/p>\n

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This proposition and\u00a0interviews with Prof Lutz\u00a0were reported via the following media:
\nChannel News Asia, Channel 5 News, Channel 8 News, Channel U News, Suria News <\/em>938Live, The Straits TImes (<\/em>see article below), The Business Times, TODAY, My Paper, Lianhe Zaobao, Berita Harian and Razor TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prof Lutz will also be speaking on Monday 18th February\u00a0to deliver\u00a0the NUSS Professorship Public Lecture – “Singapore: A Human Capital Success Story”.<\/p>\n

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